fundamentalist
adjective/ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪst/
/ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪst/
- believing that everything that is written in the scriptures (= holy books) of a religion is completely true
- a fundamentalist preacher/sect
Oxford Collocations DictionaryFundamentalist is used with these nouns:- Christian
- Christianity
- church
- …
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- following very strictly the basic principles of any subject or ideology
- the fundamentalist ideologies of market and state
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